OT: Careers in Law Enforcement--advice please!!

MauiRob

MauiRob

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I would love to start a career in law enforcement on some level. I don't really want to be a police officer--not really cut out for it on some levels. But I would really like to do something related. In other words to be doing something firsthand that makes a difference in people's lives, and if I can lock up terrorists and scumbags all the better.

So any LEO's or other professionals in related fields please weigh in and tell me my options if you would be so kind (customs, US marshalls etc...)!! Many many thanks in advance for any help with this, its very important to me!

Thanks,

Rob
 
plus Homeland Security should open up some opportunities.



by the way...if I were younger and healthier...I'd look into Department of Natural Resources enforcement officer positions.
 
MauiRob: I don't really want to be a police officer--not really cut out for it on some levels.

Unfortumately, no matter what level of enforcement, you may enter, you are going to run into some bad guys, eventually, at least the potential. May it be Fed, State, Local. Customs runs across some pretty nasty individuals, Border Patrol etc etc.

If you may doubts about some levels, investigate thoroughly, before jumping in. Even past Bar Owners ran into some pretty nasty people.:( Dale

The potential is always there.
 
I had a friend who was a straight arrow. Smart, no booze, no dope, owned his own succesful business, and decided to pursue law enforcement via the sheriffs office. He did some course work, weapons training, everything fine until the interview. He admitted that while a college student nearly 20 years before he'd smoked pot, and like many students in the late 60's and early 70's, 'went in on' a slightly larger amount to split up with dormates. This made him a 'dealer' and he was out.

I always thought that strange. Since then I've heard people say, 'never tell them the truth'...but I don't believe that. You have to tell the truth.

Probably department to department in diffent places have their own rules. They lost a good man.

I like your idea of making a difference and helping people. I wonder if the police need a photographer? Don't you do that?

munk
 
I like your idea of making a difference and helping people. I wonder if the police need a photographer? Don't you do that?
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That's not a bad idea! Can't believe I never thought of it :o

Unfortumately, no matter what level of enforcement, you may enter, you are going to run into some bad guys, eventually, at least the potential. May it be Fed, State, Local. Customs runs across some pretty nasty individuals, Border Patrol etc etc.
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Good point! Ideally I'd like to do something related to actual cuffing and stuffing bad guys. Some sort of support role. I need to do some serious research...

by the way...if I were younger and healthier...I'd look into Department of Natural Resources enforcement officer positions.
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Thanks Kis.!:) And thanks for link---I'll check that out asap!
 
Join a SWAT team. You can use your khukuri for entry thru a wall instead of door or window and take the bad guys by surprise.
 
Originally posted by JUSTRIGHT
a counselor in corrections.
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Get used to the sound of toilets flushing every time you make a home vist. I used to have a 6 cell D Kel-lite I named "Old Ex-Lax" that had that effect just about every time I visited a parolee.

You don't want to work in a prison setting, "behind the walls". And stay out of child welfare especially.
 
I have a buddy who is a regional director with Federal Fish and Game. He loves the outdoors and law enforcement...got to do both.

bt
 
I applied for the position of "Chief of Secret Police" but they said there wasn't such a position. :rolleyes:
 
My uncle has been nagging me to get into law inforcement for the past, well since Ive known him. According to him, you have to take some kind of post exam for government service? Again according to him its a general type test for government employment, so if you take it, besides just qualifying you to be a cop, it could open other options not thought of. However, I have no idea what he means by post exam, whether its a state thing, where one would find this exam, etc... Im just repeating what he tells me everytime I see him. So maybe he knows what he's talking about.:rolleyes: :D
 
Admit it, Rob. It's the handcuffs.
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:D

Thanks for more good advice! :)

According to him, you have to take some kind of post exam for government service?
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Hmmm. I don't know anything about it, but I'll check into it. Thanks for the tip:)

Hi Rob,as been said "stay away from Prison" as it will corrupt your home life.Here's a Huge List: http://www.ih2000.net/ira/ira.htm
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Thanks Akabu:) Yeah, after listening to G.Gordon Liddy talk about how they used to "turn" the hacks by sending a guy on the outside to the CO's house, taking a picture of him standing outside the guys yard with his kids playing in the background---next thing you know the guys in your pocket forever--can't quit, and probably ends up on the inside as an inmate when he gets caught smuggling for the cons. Of course this was max-security Federal prison:eek: Nope prisons are not for me. I'll just watch Oz on HBO whenever I want to experience that!;) :D
 
The only time I remember being "helped" by a cop was in 1943 when a friendly beat cop in the park removed a splinter from my hand.

In the following 60 or so years most encounters with "law enforcement" was to hassle, harrass, detain, arrest, or in some way interfere with my freedom and rights as a law-abiding citizen.

If you want to help people, wear a uniform, have a good government job with benefits and pension, become a fireman.
 
maui- I wonder if they're talking about the Civil Service Exam?


Ben-arown- Yeah, I've been imorally harrassed too. You wondeer why in hell a human would be so small as to push people around to hold himself up? All the more reason to put a decent human being in a cop's uniform. I have met some fine officers. I beleive there are some in this forum.

munk
 
YOU asked for suggestions.;)
from,MR, Of course this was max-security Federal prison Nope prisons are not for me. I'll just watch Oz on HBO whenever I want to experience that!
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LOL,LOL, :D :D :eek:
 
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